RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

"The god of the camera is a colonizer but a cul-de-sac history of exploitation is held in black skin.”

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like <em>Elden Ring</em>

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”

By Emily J. Smith | February 19, 2025

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Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

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How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Maya & Natasha”

By Jane Ciabattari | February 18, 2025

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

Adam Plunkett on the Poet’s Key Intellectual and Literary Influences

By Adam Plunkett | February 18, 2025

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

The Author of “Cosmic Tantrum” Explores Ritual and Poetic Personas

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Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 18, 2025

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | February 18, 2025

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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